Re:New Tolkien book, The Fall of Númenor, to be published
by dhosek on Thursday June 23, 2022 @08:40AM
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Not to mention the whole British Israelite thing—where there is the claim that the Brits are descended from one of the lost tribes of Israel. Then there's the hymn Jerusalem which speculates that Jesus himself came to Britain.
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Re:New Tolkien book, The Fall of Númenor, to be published
by arethuza on Thursday June 23, 2022 @08:45AM
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The myths link Jesus, Joseph of Arimathea, King Arthur, Holy Grail, Glastonbury and lots of other things:
https://theconversation.com/glastonbury-archaeology-is-revea...
Meanwhile here in Scotland we've just got a rock that someone used as a pillow - but we do have a cool footprint and a nice island with "its cargo of mouldering kings".